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re: Rory's take
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:41 am to bstaceyau19
Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:41 am to bstaceyau19
quote:This part was hilarious. PIF was trying to broker a deal as early as April 2021. It was the PGA who finally started coming around to realizing they couldn’t handle LIV players winning championships and sponsors wondering why those players can’t play in their tournaments.
4. Thinks the DP World Tour winning in court in the UK was the final catalyst to get the PIF to the table
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Monahan. He turned the battle with LIV into one of legacy, and then morality. Neither argument kept his players from defecting. Then, despite admitting the Tour could never compete dollar for dollar with the PIF, he tried to do exactly that. LIV was always going to win a war of attrition—anybody could see that. The Saudis reached out to Monahan in April 2021, hoping to partner with the Tour. Monahan wouldn’t take the meeting. He could have co-opted them then with minimal disruption to his business. Instead he chose to fight, and now the Tour as we knew it is no more. One fired-up player agent texted this to me on Tuesday afternoon: “The facts are this: Jay grossly misjudged the resources and fortitude of the PIF and did nothing proactive to make the tour less vulnerable to a competitive offering. Upon realizing that the PIF would finance LIV with huge economic incentives, Jay’s solution was to restructure the tour schedule and purses but he failed to ensure that such changes were economically viable. The marketplace answered that question definitively as sponsors were lining up to get out of their deals. The suggestion that the tour’s outlook was bright was wishful thinking at best. With Koepka’s win at the PGA Championship, the PGA Tour’s ultimate plan of ‘waiting them out’ as washed-up diminishing assets became more of a dream than a strategic plan to combat an existential threat. Jay has proven to be grossly unqualified, unprepared and incapable of providing the true leadership that the PGA Tour players deserved through this process. He mixed his ego with his ignorance. As a result of this, the PGA Tour is now essentially an asset of the Saudi Public Investment Fund. Well done Jay!”
This post was edited on 6/7/23 at 10:42 am
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Posted on 6/7/23 at 10:43 am to ell_13
So the PGA’s potential court battle was a huge piece of this, but the PIF losing in court played no part
Got it
No chance that both sides didn’t want to be in court?
Got it
No chance that both sides didn’t want to be in court?
Posted on 6/7/23 at 1:50 pm to ell_13
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He turned the battle with LIV into one of legacy, and then morality. Neither argument kept his players from defecting. Then, despite admitting the Tour could never compete dollar for dollar with the PIF, he tried to do exactly that. LIV was always going to win a war of attrition—anybody could see that.
Who wrote that?
Because...I could be wrong but it seemed that Jays arguments of legacy and morality aligned with many tour players and they didn't defect.
No company is going to win a war of attrition with a country.... But from the comments of many remaining tour players.. They were financially comfortable staying Tour bound
Posted on 6/7/23 at 2:11 pm to ell_13
Ehhh.
One player won the one major nobody gives a shite about.
I still think this was a money grab by the PGA.
There was no threat from LIV. A vast majority of the golfers are irrelevant, and of the 3 that were it wasn’t like they were going to win multiple majors moving forward
One player won the one major nobody gives a shite about.
I still think this was a money grab by the PGA.
There was no threat from LIV. A vast majority of the golfers are irrelevant, and of the 3 that were it wasn’t like they were going to win multiple majors moving forward
Posted on 6/8/23 at 4:21 am to ell_13
[img]Then, despite admitting the Tour could never compete dollar for dollar with the PIF,[/img]
The world would be a much better place if there was just a general understanding not to accept money from thugs like the Saudis.
The world would be a much better place if there was just a general understanding not to accept money from thugs like the Saudis.
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